By
Gregg
Lindemulder,
Senior
Writer,
IBM
Business
Analytics
Less
than
a
year
after
I
received
my
first
driver’s
license,
I
had
a
frightening
car
accident.
On
a
foggy
Ohio
morning,
I
was
driving
my
two
brothers
to
school
when
I
crossed
an
intersection
and
collided
with
a
grey
pick
up
truck
traveling
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By
Gregg
Lindemulder,
Senior
Writer,
IBM
Business
AnalyticsWhen
I
was
in
high
school
in
the
‘80s
I
worked
as
a
doorman
at
the
movie
theater
in
our
local
mall.
It
was
a
great
job.
I
got
to
see
all
the
movies
I
wanted,
some
of
them
over
and
over
again.
... Read more

Today's
guest
blogger
is
Tom
Stribling
from
the
Business
Analytics
software
team.No
one
wants
to
be
last
in
line,
but
energy
and
utility
companies
are
often
the
last
to
be
paid
by
their
customers.
A
recent
Federal
Reserve
statistical
release
shows
household
net
worth
continuing
to
decline
in
2011
... Read more

In
response
to:
Shuffle
Up
and
Deal
Great
post,
Tim.
FYI
-
CBC
Radio
up
here
in
Ottawa
on
Saturday
had
an
interview
with
Poker
commentator/player
Chris
Tessaro.
You
can
hear
the
full
interview
here,
but
I
thought
this
quote
was
particularly
telling: Poker
is
a
game
of
strategy,
it's
a
game
... Read more

Four
weeks
to
go
(less
a
day
or
two)
until
Information
On
Demand
EMEA.
To
mark
this
somewhat
arbitrary
milestone,
today's
Session
Spotlight
shines
on
the
Grand
Opening
and
Business
Analytics
keynote
presentations.
Both
are
scheduled
for
Wednesday,
May
19
and
both
feature
Business
Analytics
GM
Rob
Ashe.I'm
looking
... Read more

Some
encouraging
and
surprising
choices
in
CIO
Insights
list
of
recommended
spring
reading
for
IT
pros.
Encouraging
because
like
Leading
Outside
the
Lines,
by
Jon
Katzenbach
and
Zia
Khan
or
Young
World
Rising,
by
Rob
Salkowitz
or
The
Language
of
Trust,
by
Michael
Maslansky,
most
titles
dealt
with
business
... Read more

Earlier
today
I
attended
a
live
Webcast
featuring
William
Fuessler
of
IBM
Global
Business
Services
(GBS)
and
Angelia
Herrin
of
the
Harvard
Business
Review.
The
title
was
"How
CFOs
Succeed
-
or
Fail
-
in
Closing
the
Execution
Gap."Essentially
an
overview
of
the
findings
of
the
recently
released
IBM
CFO
... Read more

Football
is
the
world's
biggest
game
and
the
World
Cup
its
biggest
stage.
Now
ESPN
is
anticipating
it
will
be
the
sporting
world's
biggest
analytics
opportunity
as
well.Advertising
Age
reported
yesterday
of
a
massive
project
to
capture
and
analyze
marketing
data
during
the
upcoming
FIFA
World
Cup
in
South
... Read more

I
just
finished
reading
The
Numerati,
by
former
Business
Week
writer Stephen
Baker.
It's
a
fascinating
read,
and
notable
here
for
three
reasons:Along
with Freakonomics and Moneyball,
it
belongs
to
that
growing
body
of
work
that
makes
number-crunching
accessible
and
relevant
to
a
business
and
liberal
arts
audience.
For
a
French
and
journalism
major
... Read more

James
Cameron:
Director.
Screenwriter.
Self-proclaimed
“King
of
the
World.”And
now...business
prof?Let
me
explain.By
most
accounts,
Avatar,
Cameron's
now
two-billion-dollar,
three-dimensional
space
fantasy
15
years
in
the
making,
will
take
home
the
Na'vi's
share
of
statuettes,
including
Best
Picture.
I
suspect
many
film
fans
will
lament
this.
Yes,
the
dialogue
was
... Read more

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